Poolie01

The only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday

I love the Spark People app. It allows me to log my food and exercise and I can see at a glance where I'm at with calories, fat, carbs and protein.

I just bought a fitbit aria and it does a great job. It automatically records the weight in my fitbit app so I don't have to worry about tracking it myself.

Yeah, I'm on puréed now so I'm suppose to eat three meals a day and still get the fluids, carbs and protein. My nurse said I won't be able to get all the protein just by food in this stage so to supplement with protein shakes. She said those count as Fluid not a meal or snack. I'm happy to help in any way :-). I look at it as we're all in this together!

My nurse said to start with something easy like yogurt or cottage cheese

I just had my 2 week post op and the nurse said that my weight loss wod slow down if I dont get in the right amount of proteins carbs and fluid. She said we have to have those numbers minimally for our bodies to lose the weight. I have to get a minimum of 60oz of protein, 64oz fluid (this includes the protein) and 30oz of carbs.

That does stink! Again, so amazes at how different doctors are.

Hi kdgains! I started my purried too! I had 1/2 an egg with a tiny bit of cheese :-)

I saw something awesome on Rachel Ray yesterday. She froze bananas then puréed it with milk and it looked just like ice cream, and she claims it tastes like it too especially when you put toppings on it. I'm going to try it when I can have fruit.

At the hospital, IVs are in, just waiting on doc. Yay!!!

So I broke down today and cheated on my pre-op diet, I just hope everything else goes okay and I still have surgery on Thursday :-(

Thanks so much! Same here, my email is julie_sellers@att.net or 865-382-6999.

Awesome kdgaines, I'm havering my surgery in seven days too, yay! I know we're going to do great!

The surgeon's office who is doing my surgery has a great line of powder bariatric vitamins. You can order them from their website http://www.barilife.com/vitamin-and-mineral-supplements/multi-vitamin-products

Good luck, you've got this!

Good to everyone going in today! I'm praying for everyone.

I just did my pro-op today, my surgery is June 20.

Hi everyone, I'm new on here and just wanted to introduce myself. My surgery date is June 20th. I will have my lapband converted to a gastric bypass. I was banded in 2009 and only had minimal weight loss (30 lbs). In April my new surgeon diagnosed me with a slipped band, hiatal hernia and severe GERD so my insurance is going to cover the revision under medical necessity. I was very fortunate that the insurance approved the medical necessity in 3 days! I'm looking forward to al the support I see this group gives.

Thanks everyone, this group is awesome!

June 20th for me